https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53107
MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #6 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > Saying that 'editing will be available soon' or anything hinting at that is > also misleading and opens up more questions then answers. For instance > "when?", "why?", "where?" Should I check back tomorrow, a week, a year? Keeping users in the dark isn't a good strategy. Knowledge is power. If users are asking "when?" and "what's the hold up?", this a wonderful feature, not a bug. Perhaps we should link them to this bug. It isn't unheard of for software to do this, particularly to focus energy on resolving the issue (all bugs are shallow with more eyeballs, or something like that). > Is this confusing users? I'm yet to see that evidence. I'm not sure what evidence you might need. At the moment, it's largely anecdotal, but I think myself, Nemo, and Eran Roz (who filed bug 52442) don't think the current language is ideal. And I've done my best to respond to the substance here by focusing on (design) principles of Wikimedia (cf. comment 3). As Eran notes in comment 5, adjusting the language now is better than simply doing nothing, particularly if there's no timeline yet for re-enabling anonymous editing. > If we enable anonymous editing (the bug you suggest - bug 53069) this problem > goes away so I suggest focusing more on that. Yes, I've been dealing with AFTv5 (somehow it's still alive... don't ask) and the upcoming CodeEditor deployment (which is happening this Thursday, so it takes priority). I'll get to bug 53069 when I have a minute. (Stopping to respond to wontfixes isn't helping me move more quickly. ;-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
